The giant study of twelve granny smith apples continues to come into focus. With the dark and crushing blizzard of yesterday finally past, today’s sky is so blindingly bright that I’ve been wearing sunglasses in the painting studio. Strangely, it doesn’t seem to affect anything. After two days of blocking in transition colors, I hit a few hard edges and details, and it’s suddenly starting to snap together. Overall it feels like I’m mixing in as much red as all the colors that make green, but it seems to be holding together. Tomorrow will see this start to really coalesce into a solid piece of painting.

On a side note, for the past month my wife has been busily putting together a blog of her adventures in cooking. She doesn’t need to be promoted by me, as she’s quickly becoming fairly popular on her own. Aside from how colorful and complete her blog is, the food is absolutely spectacular. She lists the ingredients with easy to follow recipes for many authentic Thai dishes. You can sign up for Amporn’s Thai Kitchen to keep up with each day’s creation on Blogspot.